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Gassman, Vittorio (1922–2000)| Italian film and theatre actor of German descent. In 1950 he founded the Italian Popular Theatre, with which he came to London in 1963, appearing in excerpts from his repertoire under the title The Heroes. Tackling Shakespeare, he was an excellent Hamlet and in 1956 alternated the parts of Othello and Iago. |
| He appeared in several films, making his name with Riso amaro/Bitter Rice (1948), directed by Giusepppe De Santis. He won the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974 for his role as the blind Captain Fausto in Profumo di donna/That Female Scent, directed by Dino Risi, which was later remade in Hollywood as Scent of a Woman (1992) with Al Pacino playing Gassman's role. |
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